DENVER, October 21, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com)  Jane Norton, the former head of Colorados Department for Public Health and the Environment (CDPHE), has sued both her former agency and Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood, alleging that CDPHE officials authorized millions of dollars in payments to the abortion giant in violation of the state constitution, which was amended by popular vote in 1984 to ban both direct and indirect subsidies to abortion providers. A 1986 attempt to repeal the ban was rejected by voters.

Norton, who presided over an investigation and public defunding of the abortion group in the early 2000s, is asking the court to demand the state stop funding Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood in violation of both the state constitution and her own order barring payments to the group, which she says her successors have chosen to ignore.

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